Book Review: The Antikythera Mechanism: A 2,000-Year-Old Greek Computer for Deciphering Heavens and Earth: Jo Marchant Decoding the Heavens. New York: Da Capo Press, 2009. 328 pp. $25.00 [Book Review]

Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 29 (6):506-511 (2009)
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